dying week old chicks

[cow lover]

I am fighting an uphill battle. I get fat healthy chicks from the feed store, sometimes straight out of the mail box if I special order them. I know what company they order from and trust them. most have nice full crops and running around all spunky. Then after a week, they start to droop, no plugged backsides. just sit there. They quit eating, quit drinking, just sleep all hunkered up. I have lost over 1/2 of everything I have ordered this year. I've done so many total clean outs and bleaching of the coop. skipped the bleach and used vinegar. used pine shavings, cob shavings and paper shreds. Ive treated with corrid for cocci. electrolytes in the water, poli-sol or what we call chicken crack for jump starts in energy. With over 100 chicks I have bought, I pull 3-6 dead every day out of the brooder pens. I have maybe 40 or so that have survived the 6 week old mark, knock on wood!!! no one can come up with an answer... I'm going insane! please help if you can

 

[ChicKat]

Welcome to the forum.

so sorry to hear about your losses. Something is obviously going wrong. Are you feeding the chicks on medicated chick feed.

Only have had chickens for a year now and always got them at 4-weeks (fully feathered) and up. But chicks are little creatures and as such they are somewhat fragile despite their toughness.

Hopefully some BYC experts will jump in and ask some questions that will lead to some suggestions for you. Best of luck with the survivors.